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Bank Street Tattoo Company owner and Navy Petty Officer First Class Mike Spittler. Spittler already has a nautical scene with Poseidon the God of the sea tattooed on his arm.

Navy relaxes tattoo policy to recruit more millennials

Effective this month, tattoo enthusiasts who serve in the U.S. Navy can ink a lot more of their body.The Navy's latest policy change is an effort to…

Dakota Keogh and her daughter Adrienne, who applies makeup. Keogh recently came out as transgender to her family.

For transgender patients, a guide to help their doctors

Dakota Keogh remembers that age when boys and girls start to go their separate ways, about four or five.“I felt like I got caught in the wrong tide,” she…

A Seattle third grader auditions for Pacific Northwest Ballet's Dance Chance program.

Ballet: First You Need The Right Body, Then You Need A Chance

Long before Misty Copeland grabbed international headlines as the first African American woman named principal dancer at American Ballet Theater in New…

The Library Seattle Grew To Love, Or At Least Get Used To

Superstar architect Rem Koolhaas and his Rotterdam-based firm OMA almost didn't build Seattle's iconic downtown library building."We found out about the…

Some of the microaggressions noted by KUOW listeners.

We asked our listeners about racial microaggressions. The responses proved the point

On the night of Dr. Roberto Montenegro’s dissertation defense celebration, he went out to dinner at a fancy restaurant with his wife and colleagues. He…

Flee Or Die: Olympia Quakers Support Uganda's Underground Railroad

UPDATE: 12/11/2014In August, Uganda struck down a law which punished homosexuality with life in prison – but only on a technicality. Talcott Broadhead,…

The Weird World Of Sea-Tac Airport’s Lost And Found

There was that time with the bleeding box. The one that smelled bad, really bad."It stunk up the entire floor," said Veta Hernandez, manager of the lost…

Allie and Matthew McClintock and their newborn son, Declan.

Tacoma wife mourns ‘nerdy badass’ soldier killed in Afghanistan

When two Green Berets pulled up outside Allie McClintock’s Tacoma home in January and came through the white picket fence to front porch, her first…

AR-15 rifle with a Stag lower receiver California legal (only with fixed 10-round magazine)

A Seattle-area gun owner asks: Do we really need these weapons?

The day after the Orlando nightclub shooting, Tami Michaels, a Seattle talk show host, took to Facebook.“I have enjoyed target shooting with my Army son…

Teri Rogers Kemp once stood on a corner with a sign and yelled at cars. Over time, she has found more effective strategies.

Seattle activist learns police reform requires more than yelling from streetcorners

Local activists want to make it easier to prosecute police who use deadly force. They’re gathering signatures for an initiative that would eliminate a…

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